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People were driving down Broadway in claret-colored broughams, ladies wore tiaras and insisted on heavy white gloves when in Box No. 8, the fourth from the stage on the right, Lizzie P. Bliss began entertaining on Monday nights at the Opera. Lizzie Bliss was a gracious hostess. In Washington she entertained for her father when President McKinley persuaded him to leave his wholesale dry-goods business long enough to serve a term as Secretary of the Interior. Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. was part owner of the Diamond Horseshoe Box but New York has known him more for his charitable...
Whether or not opera at the Metropolitan continues the boxholders must go on paying taxes. At last week's meeting they were unwilling to assume more burden. In fighting disbandment, Cornelius Bliss stressed the number of people who would be thrown out of work-about 770. He consented to serve on a committee to impress outsiders with the need for help. Characteristically he took no credit for his efforts; small, popular Soprano Lucrezia Bori was made chairman...
...Mount Tom Meadows. Beyond the mist and the moonlight a people mourned the loss of its greatest private citizen, its only ex-President. . . . Smith College girls, just back from holidays, went to the Calvin Theatre as usual, saw Under-Cover Man on the screen. Northampton's Mayor Bliss announced that the city's merchants would draw their shades but keep their doors open during the funeral. Said he: "I'm not going to ask them to close because I don't think Calvin Coolidge would want that. He knew what they've been through. Every...
...Mexico, prepared at Loomis, and has written several books on various subjects concerning New Mexi can Indians. The Editorial Chairman, R. W. Drury, prepared at St. Paul's, coming from Concord, New Hampshire. Bernard McDonald, of Winthrop, Photographic Chairman, prepared at Worcester. The Business Chairman, A. A. Bliss, from Long Island, New York, prepared at Groton. The Art Chairman, C. F. Sampson, prepared at Westminster, comes from Scarborough...
...Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University of Chicago), John Wesley Young (mathematics, University of Kansas). John Edward Wallace Wallin (psychology, University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere), Alfred Ernest Richards (English, University of New Hampshire...